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by Reporter © DCT Media Chris Fleming with his puppy Arthur. An Angus gym owner has called for dog walkers to keep their pets under control after he saved a woman and three golden retrievers from a frozen reservoir. Chris Fleming was walking his cockapoo puppy Arthur at Crombie Country Park on Thursday when the drama unfolded. The golden retrievers had fallen into icy water and the owner of two of the dogs was screaming for help after going in to save them and finding herself in trouble....

Southern District Health Board fails to end use of seclusion 30 Dec, 2020 07:53 PM 3 minutes to read A report by the Health Quality and Safety Commission said seclusion had negative outcomes for both patients and mental health staff. Photo / 123RF Otago Daily Times More than 200 people have been placed in seclusion by Southern mental health services in the past three years, despite calls for the practice to be done away with by 2020. Figures released by the Southern District Health Board (SDHB)...

Christel Yardley/Stuff Unprecedented pressure on Southland Hospitals emergency department means some people are having their surgeries cancelled, often multiple times. Some surgeries are on hold in Invercargill until after Christmas because of the enormous pressure on staff and resources at Southland Hospital. Chief executive officer Chris Fleming told the Hospital Advisory Committee on Monday that about 60 surgeries had been cancelled in Southland and Otago in the past week – 13 were cancel...

understand the issues that were going on. we have a lot of partners out there. and i know i am talking too much. the other thing we want to focus on is the media. they probably will not like me for saying that, but the media really did not tell the truth. not all of the media, but there were a lot of lies out there. the people in the grassroots movement knew it. we want the media to be held accountable as we move through the process. are we going away? no. do we know what were going to...

rebates to the low income population in the medicare program. so maybe in the name of budget savings and others, there maybe more receptivity to those kinds of ideas even in a congress thats now divided. >> this is john rother, i could just add i thought it was significant that the ceo of glaxo came out calling for health reform to go forward. i certainly agree with deans point. this is a negotiation in which the industry won quite a few concessions. and if this issue is reopened, i be...

as the former top health care advisor, as well as bill frist. this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> i think we have microphones on everybody up here. the opportunity for everybody to have gotten lunch. so why dont we get started? im ed howard with the alliance for health reform. on behalf of senator rockefeller, senator collins, and our board of directors, i want to welcome tow -- welcome you to this session about how last weeks session might affect the new health care reform law and othe...

passed that health care reform. hes just not going to do it. hes got to come up with some reason and the reason is a messaging. i think i might move to foreign policy only because theres 50,000 troops still sitting in iraq. whether or not that constitutes a withdrawal, and i would push of a little on the deadline for next june, the time to do that will be after december when the report -- put a report out there. but i think there have been certain signals inside the white house and cer...